Orange Man and Franco

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Francisco Franco – the caudillo of Spain – understood that you cannot reason with communists. You cannot persuade or mollify them. You can only stop them.

And he did.

It will probably take a man such as Franco to deal with the communists – and let’s speak plainly of them – who have infested this country like termites in a soggy log.

Is that man the Orange Man?

He seems to understand what Franco knew. That you do not play nice with communists, who aim to destroy you. It is why the Orange Man’s recent bitch-slapping (almost literally) of the “nasty” woman who had no interest in interviewing him was so wildly cheered. This is how you deal with such people.

And Orange Man did.

But was it just for show? As it was before?

Orange Man says – or sounds as if he says – many things that many would like to hear. And more to the point, are desperate to hear someone say. And for someone to do. This accounts for the devotion of  Orange Man’s followers. It is unlike anything in recent American history going back at least to the time of Ronald Reagan, who also said a lot of things many people wanted very badly to hear.

And that was pretty much all he did.

To be fair to the Orange Man, there were some things he did do that amounted to more than just talking about them. One of the most meaningful of these being the ending of the federal fines applied to those who did not abide by the “individual mandate” – as it is  styled – to hand over money to the health insurance mafia. This has given probably millions of people a financial respite from the communists’ most signal achievement of the past 20 years, that being what’s styled “Obamacare,” the forcing of health insurance on people. The “individual mandate” gave it teeth – and Orange Man pulled them.

He also at least tried to halt the communists’ push for “electrification” – that is to say, the centralization of energy – with their fingers on the Off switch. He batted it away by encouraging other sources of energy, especially oil and natural gas. And he publicly “denied,” as it is styled, the religion of “climate change.”

He could be a strong man, sometimes. And when he was, he seemed to be the man who might be the one to crush the communist roaches, as Franco did.

But then he showed himself to be a weak man.

He stood aside – literally – and let the communists weaponize hypochondria. He even did what the communists demanded – and wore a “mask.” Thereby giving the communists the win they needed to cause him to lose. Which they accomplished by deciding who won the election that selected the Orange Man’s replacement.

And he still hasn’t said anything about that.

Not the selection, about which he says a great deal. Rather, about how he enabled it. He has not dissected it. He certainly has not apologized for it. He continues to avoid saying anything about his very active role in “warp speeding” the drugs that are not vaccines into millions of people’s arms. Including the arms of practically everyone in the military, the very people Orange Man says he especially favors.

If so, what does that portend for the rest of us?

So why did Orange Man “warp speed” these drugs? The reason that seems most likely is that he thought he could claim credit for them – and for ending the “pandemic” the communists engineered to get rid of him (and much more, besides).

This – if true – reveals the Orange Man to be a shallow thinker and no Franco, for it shows he does not understand what he is up against.

As Franco did.

You do not defeat the communists by agreeing with them. Which is exactly what Orange Man did – and has yet to own up to.

He played along.

And – apparently – thought he could out-play the communists via the pushing of the drugs that weren’t – aren’t – vaccines as the way to quickly end the “pandemic” also appealed to his narcissism. His putting of himself first, always.

Some believe he was “playing” the communists by allowing them to weaponize hypochondria – and thereby reveal themselves. This is delusional “white hat” thinking. It is also the thinking that thinks selections can be overturned by “exposing” them. Viz, the effort by Kari Lake in Arizona to establish by process that her opponent was selected governor. There is an infantile quality to this. One that communists understand very well and use to their advantage.

Does the Orange Man finally understand this?

Maybe, at last, he does. We will see what he does.

As distinct from what he says.

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34 Comments
Brewer55
Brewer55
May 23, 2023 11:07 am

Some believe he was “playing” the communists by allowing them to weaponize hypochondria – and thereby reveal themselves. This is delusional “white hat” thinking.

He should have added that this is the very crux of ‘Q’ thinking…the 5D chess belief. This is utter and total nonsense.

I hope more articles come out like this one that spells out that he is a bloviator, and not so much a doer.

Orange Man says – or sounds as if he says – many things that many would like to hear. And more to the point, are desperate to hear someone say. And for someone to do. This accounts for the devotion of Orange Man’s followers. It is unlike anything in recent American history going back at least to the time of Ronald Reagan, who also said a lot of things many people wanted very badly to hear. And that was pretty much all he did.

From what I can see with my conservative friends, this is what they liked about him. He stuck his finger in the eyes of the corrupt MSM news outlets. I liked it too … for awhile. Until I saw that what he says, and what he does, are 2 different things entirely. And, from hearing his speeches in 2023, it might as well be 2015. It sounds like the same BS as before.

Urban Jungle Joe
Urban Jungle Joe
  Brewer55
May 23, 2023 5:17 pm

idiots don’t get that Drumph is part of the whole deal, he is the epitome of controlled opposition, he enjoys paying the “bad guy on TV” and is very well paid for it

you think he is gonna come save you? Wake tf up

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  Brewer55
May 24, 2023 2:12 pm

What is the most highly amusing, and sadly ironic, aspect of the grumblings of my fellow citizens about the perceived ineptness of “Orange Man Bad” is the tragic ignorance of how the American Federal political process works.

The TRUE criminals and enemies of the American Citizenry is the entire US Federal CONgress, the 100 criminals in the Senate and 435 in the House.

All 535 of them…have control of the monies and actions of the US FEDGOV.

The powers of the office of the Presidency is hamstrung, by design, during peacetime politics…

But, in times of “war”, the “gloves come off” the powers of the president…

Observe what the Tyrant (((Lincoln))) did during his (((Civil War))) regime, when he oversaw the murder of over 700,000 American Citizens.

ursel doran
ursel doran
May 23, 2023 11:22 am

The absurdities of our insane “Tragic Comic Opera” are reviewed point by point. V.D. Hanson.
Cry for the country!!
“Then what cannot go on, will not go on and all the absurdities of the present will end with a bang, not a whimper.”

The Absurdities of Our Age

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
May 23, 2023 11:27 am

There will be those that will never forgive Trump for not being a doctor or virologist, and for actually relying on the recognized experts at the time.
He should have known that everyone with a D and many with an R would do anything to get him to fuck up, even though they swore oaths to “do no Harm”.
He is a businessman, not a politician or doctor and that’s fer sure.

anon a moos
anon a moos
  YourAverageJoe
May 23, 2023 11:49 am

He is a businessman

and not a very good one either.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  YourAverageJoe
May 23, 2023 12:13 pm

Experts, recognized or not, don’t get to choose whether we have rights and freedoms. It was his choice alone in executing executive orders and he must be held accountable for that.

But the point is that he says what we want to hear, and often it sounds very good. What he actually does, is very different.

Paleocon
Paleocon
  YourAverageJoe
May 23, 2023 12:32 pm

He knows now. Nothing will happen under a second Trump presidency. Jared still advises him.

Tex
Tex
  Paleocon
May 23, 2023 2:24 pm

Can’t wait for more pictures at the wailing wall.

beau
beau
  YourAverageJoe
May 23, 2023 12:47 pm

i agree with you.

Tex
Tex
  YourAverageJoe
May 23, 2023 10:59 pm

Joe, I’m thinking peeps should move on to DeSantis if in the right wing camp, GOP, whatever, rather than defend Trump.

Warren
Warren
May 23, 2023 11:35 am

Remember that in the beginning Franco wasn’t elected to anything, came from the military.
It’s unlikely that the US would elect a Franco, although the left could nominate a Mao, and then steal enough votes to install him.
And I doubt that the current Woke US military could.produce one as well, especially after Obama purged the military.

anon a moos
anon a moos
May 23, 2023 11:47 am

This is delusional “white hat” thinking. It is also the thinking that thinks selections can be overturned by “exposing” them.

Exactly. You could put up a flashing neon sign, use fireworks, scream from the roof tops about all the crimes and criminal activities with overwhelming smoking gun proof, and nothing would change. All the served up politicals will change nothing, nada, zero. What will happen is those still participating in the illusion will be about their busy bee’n and distracted efforts, for naught.

The only real solution left is the complete withdrawal from the system of evil. Do not give them legitimacy in anything. About the only thing a person can do is to write or speak to your **cough** representative, and tell them directly you will no longer vote, support in any way economically, emotionally and physically, in any way. Outside of that, do not participate.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  anon a moos
May 23, 2023 2:18 pm

While you are right, it does not matter.

We can withdraw (as I have) but it changes nothing as the masses of asses majority will NEVER do anything that would cause them ANY even temporary hardship, even if future improvement was GUARANTEED.

We can avoid the inevitable for a while, hopefully until we are done with this life, but IMO the battle is lost. We simply do not have the numbers to make a real difference AFAICT

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 23, 2023 12:01 pm

Franco was a master of Machiavellian manipulation of his political and military opponents in one of the most complex ideological (civil) wars that ever took place (and which in the throes of he played Hitler like a pair of castanets.) That he stopped Communists is very true; more accurately, he liquidated them. By the thousands. He did the one thing that guaranteed that they’d never bother Spain again; he shot them. Every last one. Does anyone see Trump, with his admirable devotion to the letter of law and the Constitution, doing this? Or is Trump the Constitutional façade for a black ops loyalist option that is operating behind the scenes in a second American revolution that has yet to go kinetic? Thanks for a another solid article, Mr. Peters. I cannot fathom how Trump allowed his followers and decent loyal Americans (including my parents) to take what he must have, with his access to intelligence, known was a deadly bio weapon. History plays out differently when one is in its embrace and it is possible we are reacting in the present to events that were planned over years and the perpetrators could be a dozen black sci-fi moves ahead of us while We The People wax indignant in a collapsed republic over perceived wrongs that no longer figure.

God bless Americans.

Paleocon
Paleocon
May 23, 2023 12:30 pm

He had 4 years to “do.” Admittedly under extremely hostile circumstances. The Clintons are “good people” schtick proves he is controlled opposition.

Arizona Bay
Arizona Bay
May 23, 2023 12:34 pm

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Patiently waiting

World War Zero
World War Zero
  Arizona Bay
May 23, 2023 1:42 pm

Paraphrasing Glengarry Glen Ross :

1st place winner gets a Franco,
2nd place gets a Pinochet,
3rd place gets Pol Pot.

TCS
TCS
  World War Zero
May 23, 2023 5:58 pm

…honorable mention to Edi Amin Dada (The machete mauler) and Saddam Hussein and his spawn as well.

The True Nolan
The True Nolan
  TCS
May 23, 2023 6:28 pm

Edi Amin? There was a frightening movie made about Edi Amin, called “The Last King of Scotland”. Brutal stuff, but maybe worth a view to some.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  The True Nolan
May 23, 2023 9:02 pm

Much of what comes out of Negroland is brutal. Animals can’t help behaving like animals.

overthecliff
overthecliff
May 23, 2023 1:19 pm

I like a lot of what Trump says but talk is cheap. He had 4 years and didn’t deliver shit. He is a con man,always has been.

Tex
Tex
  overthecliff
May 23, 2023 2:34 pm

Well, he saved US taxes although during his tenure spent as much in four years as Obama in eight. That is what I call less government and less spending, oh and “conservatism”. ok/s, yet more manure spreading by King Cyrus Trump.

Republicans rise up. There has got to be a “reason” , there has got to be an “excuse”, there has got to be someone else to blame. lol

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
May 23, 2023 2:04 pm

Here again I find myself reading about Trump to gain a favorable view and once again come away feeling the same.
Someday I’ll get it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 23, 2023 2:25 pm

Maybe, at last, he does. We will see what he does.

Hope dies last. But it dies.

There is no solution in the current system, no matter what ‘saviour’ you ‘elect’. Elect…..LOL.

The True Nolan
The True Nolan
May 23, 2023 2:39 pm

Trump is not Franco. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is Franco.
https://www.thejournal.ie/el-salvador-gang-arrests-5894073-Oct2022/

Arizona Bay
Arizona Bay
  The True Nolan
May 23, 2023 3:38 pm

That guy is the real deal. No idea how long he lasts. Gangs murdered a gang special until cop. He put fence around the city and sent in 3k army and 500 special gang unit police to find perp and break the gang. He means business.

https://i.insider.com/5ea8dc4fe61f345d1d712d93?width=600&format=jpeg&auto=webp

The True Nolan
The True Nolan
  Arizona Bay
May 23, 2023 6:30 pm

Love BitCoin or hate it, he also made BC legal tender as part of his attempt to get El Salvador free from the Central Bank system currently controlling world finance. Magic Eight Ball says, “Situation unclear at present.” Check back in ten years.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
May 23, 2023 4:12 pm

Francisco Franco was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. He was not a “fascist”. He was a conservative army officer, a moderate monarchist in fact.

He saved his country from a Communist takeover and kept it out of World War II, then skillfully rebuilt ties with the United States, a success that led to the Spanish “economic miracle”, which was jump-started with the money spent to build U.S. military bases in Spain. He did this in spite of the rage of the Western European socialist cowards who seized control of most of Western Europe after the war.

But Franco’s greatest contribution to the civilized world was his absolute insistence on holding the Communists and their friends personally and individually responsible for the crimes and atrocities they committed.
He utterly rejected the idea of “classes” or the “masses”. You stood alone before God and the state to answer for what you did.

When his critics point to the Communists executed by Franco, they try to draw moral comparisons, which are bullshit. Every single person the Communists and their friends killed were innocent victims. Every Red Franco shot had it coming to him.

And answer for their crimes they did, in front of firing squads, by the thousands. His hand did not tremble when the time came to make those swine pay for what they had done. Unfortunately, he eventually moderated his cleansing campaign, which left plenty of scum around to reproduce. The current Spanish prime minister is a perfect example of the vermin that have crawled out the sewers in recent years.

Franco was no monster. Ordinary people caught up in the so-called “Republican” movement had little to fear and were quickly pardoned and released. The ringleaders and the murderers were hunted down without mercy.

Spain is now in the hands of Marxist idiots. This once manly nation, which invented the idea of “hombria”, is now a pussy-whipped joke. Spanish women – ironically some of the most beautiful on earth – are fanatical feminists and the men are mincing hipsters.

American patriots should carefully study the history of the Spanish Civil War, and the events that led to it and followed it. It has more lessons for modern-day America than our own civil war.

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  Southern Sage
May 24, 2023 2:15 pm

I’d upvote ya 10,000 if I could…

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 23, 2023 8:59 pm

Or maybe he is one of the communists in disguise.

Tex
Tex
May 23, 2023 11:15 pm

DeSantis is the only wailing wall kisser that is speaking out against gayism. Who knows, flip?

Oh, other than some obscure person that is not part of the “plan”. But who are they? Never heard of them.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
May 24, 2023 2:38 am

I should have named one of my kids Generalissimo Francisco Franco. It might’ve made life a little complicated, but she woulda done fine.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
May 24, 2023 2:38 am

O/t, but I really miss El Coyote.